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female [ or the concourse of young females], having her [ or its ] day of love-making merged into the long past, rendered shameless by passion intensified too much, fearing Him [ or apprehensive of coming in the nearest proximity to Him ], intolerent of delay, staying at a distance, with her path leading to Him blocked up by inimical fate, would, he said, experience Him [ i. e. would take delight in cohabiting with Him] through fancies which would be worthy of being experienced by oneself in whose mind they arise. He asked Him to look to the female or to the concourse of females, which had been eager just then, owing to an ardent desire for a touch of His face, to tell in His ears what could have been spoken out articulately in the presence of friends, struck with wonder on account of non-attainment of even a bit of love from Him, served Him from a distance. Sambara said that the transmutation of the minds of those women, melliftuous owing to love, assuming the appellation Kama, gone beyond the range of ears, not seen by eyes, incessantly known in the world as intelligible through amorous gestures, said through him as follows-"Oh mendicant ! with your mind absorbed in found and abstract meditation, what kind of meditation, having no concrete object, are you practising thus ? Oh sage ! call to your mind the physical frame of a beautiful woman in the Śyama-creeper, her glances in those of the frightened doe, the charm of her face in the moon, and her tresses in the plumages of peacocks. We see in these young and tender sprouts the loveliness of our palms, in this grove of Kurabaka plants bearing red flowers the brightness of our nails, in these clusters of blossoms shooting out of creepers bearing flowers the grace of our smiles and in the very slender ripples of rivers the graceful movements of our eyebrows. Oh cruel Laxmi in the form of penance as this semblance of ours as described above, worthy of being meditated upon, bearing fruit in the form of actual pleasure, fulfilling the desires of mendicants, is seen clearly
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